[Openal] Linux deployment and OpenAL-Soft

[Daniel PEACOCK]

Hi Carsten,

> If I understood Daniels post correctly, the OpenAL32.dll search for
> OpenAL components is independent
> from the search (and search order) in which Windows searches for
> DLLs when an app starts.
> That means that native OpenAL implementations are found (and
> eventually used) even in the bad case
> where my app-local OpenAL DLLs are older than the system ones. So
> either way, the users native
> driver implementation (if present) will be used in all cases, so
> that in summary, even though not
> optimal, the situation with shipping app-local DLLs is pretty
> relaxed. (Only if there is no native
> implementation and the older app-local DLLs have a bug that the
> system DLLs don't have is there a
> real disadvantage.)

Yes - that's exactly right.

Dan